Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 38
If the same person is always the target, it is picking on them, even if they laugh along.
Who acts: same person, target, feelings · What happens: be, pick, laugh · To what, where: target
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cruel pranks and where the line is» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same person, target, feelings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 target | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 person | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 person | amod |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 target | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 target | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 target | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 target | det |
| 8 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 picking | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 target | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 picking | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 picking | aux |
| 12 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 picking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laugh | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 laugh | advmod |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 laugh | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laugh | nsubj |
| 19 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 picking | advcl |
| 20 | along | along | ADV | _ | 19 laugh | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 picking | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | the same person | the target | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pick | present · progressive | target | on feelings = feeling | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | laugh a condition, not said to happen | present | feelings = feeling | along property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.lesson:38.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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